Newsletter June 2022
Summer student contributes to bringing historical plants to new life
Nathalie Frosthammer is studying at the Department for Biosciences, this summer she is one of 40 students participating in a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science.
Visits to the construction site of the new life science building
There is full activity on the construction site at the moment. Seven high cranes tower into the air and construction machinery is in full operation. Some employees from the University of Oslo have visited the construction site.
Calls from UiO:Life Science
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Open call for interdisciplinary projects
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Course development support for departments and faculties
Disputations for PhD candidates from UiO:Life Science' convergence environments
28 June Yanjiao Li from the convergence environment Epigenetics and bioethics of human embryonic development
23 June Naomi Croft Guslund from the convergence environment Comparative immunology of fish and humans defended her thesis
16 June Maja Nipen from the convergence environment Combining natural and social sciences to understand and manage global anthropogenic toxicants defended her thesis
2 June Mariaserena Giliberto from the convergence environment Personalised cancer therapies defended her thesis
News
The Anders Jahre Award for Medical Research is awarded to Harald Stenmark
Stenmark receives the award for his groundbreaking research on processes in cell membranes and how misregulation of such processes affects the development of cancer. Harald Stenmark was one of the PIs in Programmable Cell-like Compartments, one of the first convergence environments supported by UiO:Life Science.
Researchers from the convergence environment ImmunoLingo win Idéprisen 2022
Inven2's Idépris 2022 goes to a virtual tool for developing antibodies. The idea was developed by Victor Greiff, head of the convergence environment ImmunoLingo, together with colleagues from the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital.
SPARK Norway alumni Ole J?rgen Kaasb?ll named "Innovator of the Year"
Inven2 presented "Innovator of the Year"-prize for the first time. Ole J?rgen Kaasb?ll, head of research and one of the founders of the company Tribune Therapeutics, was awarded the prize at Innovation Day 2022.
Vacancies
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The convergence environment MORGI
Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
Two Postdoctoral Fellow positions - inter-organ communication and cancer
Deadline 1 July -
The convergence environment AUTORHYTHM
Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
PhD in Molecular Cell Biology
Deadline 31 July -
The convergence environment AUTORHYTHM
RITMO - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo
Doctoral Research Fellowship in image sonification
Deadline 1 September
Events
- 28 Juni - 1 July Dynamic Kinetochore Workshop Organizer: Nikolina Sekulic, NCMM
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8 - 10 September SSBP International Research Symposium, Oslo Organizer: Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes (SSBP)
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14 - 15 September The Norwegian Cancer Symposium
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21 September SPARK Norway Educational Forum
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29 September Er det h?p for Oslofjorden?
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26 October SPARK Norway Educational Forum
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23 November SPARK Norway Educational Forum
